The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-05-06
PRESS COMMENT.


Galveston News: IL may as well be un-
derstood now as later that Prohibi-
ton i'm Texas has come to stay.
During Mr.. McLean's absence from
Cincinnati, young Alexander Sands is
managing the Enquirer with great ability.
Rochester Herald: The Republican
party will not take for counselors and
leaders those who were instrumental i'm
its defeat in 1884.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: It is
apparent that the Ohio Democratic
Mossbacks have recently stolen few
bases in their game with the kids.
Indianapolis Journal: Mr.. Depew has
few equals and no superiors as an after
dinner speaker. We do not know how
he would run on an empty stomach.
No better advertisement of the politi-
cal desperation into which the Salisbury
ministry has fallen could be found i'm
any paper than the forged Parnell let,
ter in the London Tmes.-Detroit Jour
nal.
New York Tribune: A new generation
has come upon the stage since the last
shot was fred, and it will not do to have
the history of the nation so distorted
for them that nullifiers or rebels shall
seem to be patriotic.
New York Herald: The president can
set himself TO no more important task,
to none more fruitful of good results To
the country than this which he has be-
gun 80 well by ordering that poor Gull
ford Miller shall keep his farm.
If the president should conclude to
call an extra session of Congress i'm the
fall, he cannot do better than to recon-.
mend that body to first act on the just
claims of Dakota to be admitted as q
State.-LeapenaOorth, Kan, Times.
st. Louis Republican Dem.): The
president evidently does not approve Of
the policy of his secretary of the inter.
ior. We hope he does not approve o.
the policy of his secretary of state and
of the course of his attorney general,
New York Mail and Express: The
more opportunities there given to q
Democratic House to exhibit its follies
the sooner will the people find out their
mistake in electing it. On that ground
and for that reason we favor an extra
session.
John A. Logan, Jr., who, q, few weeks
ago, was married to Miss Andrews
daugher of Chauncey Andrews, the Goa
and oil king of Youngstown, Ohio, has
returned from his honeymoon and be-
gun active management of coal lands
given him by his father-in-law.
Louisville Courier Journal: We hear
a great deal about "the business of the
country" and very little about either
moral or political principles. The man
who is over-tenacious, or over-earnest
about anything except the almighty dol.
lar is apt to be considered a crank.
Kansas City Times: The Chicago hood.
lers express fear of Chicago judges
but perhaps the opposition is based
largely upon wholesome dread of Chi.
cagO juries. Things are coming to such
a pass in this glorious western country
that dishonest men are really afraid to
60 to trial.
New York World: Itmay be set down
as fact that, wherever any community
or enterprise protests against the en-
forcement of the "long and short hauP'
provision of the law, it has heretofore
enjoyed advantages to which it was not
entitled, at the expense of her people.
1t was to remedy this unjust discrimina.
ton that the law was passed.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: Not single
pledge of reform upon which the Dem.
ocrots carried the last national election
has been redeemed; in not one respect
has the party justified the hopes OF
those who took it at its word and voted
to risk the honor and welfare of the
country for four wears in its keeping.
Philadelphia Press: 1t is something to
remember that the present administers
ton is the first this country has had in a
quarter of century which could have
been participant i'm such tribute. II
is now but step to Jefferson Davis,
whose views are i'm exact accord with
those held by John Caldwell Calhoun.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: 1t may be
added here that the most fitting APP
pendix to the life of John c. Calhoun
would be an account of the evacuation
of Richmond by the confederate gov
eminent, and copy of the terms of
surrender of the armies of Lee and
Johnston.
Louisville Courier Journal: The real
case against the President is his assump-
ton of power, granted neither by law
nor the genius of our institutions, over
the conscience and conduct of his APP
pointees to Office, and his assertion OF
a principle the admission of which is
the overthrow of representative gov
eminent.
Philadelphia Times: Anybody who
monkeys with the buzz-saw of Ameri.
can civilization, i'm 1887 or any other
year, will be wiser afterward than be-
fore, and most men, including even dyn-
amiters, may be assumed already good
deal wiser than the bowling idiot who
could seriously put up anything like
this Chicago document.
New York Mail and Cypress: In what
aspect and from whatever point of view
the conflicting Democratic testimony
and comments as to the retiring DISPOSE
ton of the ambitious and self-willed
master of the White House are consid-
cred, there is nothing but encourage
ment for those Republicans who have
the brains to understand the singular
Democratic situation.
New York Sun: If the Democratic
National Convention of 1SSSis to make
the doctrine of free trade with foreign
countries square and unqualified plank
in its platform, than by all means Mr..
Cleveland should be nominated; and, il
it should be clearly determined before
hand that such platform is to be
adopted, the Sun will not fail to adj
vocate his nomination.
New York San: The Canadians and
the friends of free trade, both here and
in England, are strongly in favor of a
reciprocity treaty or the establishment
of a Zoliverein between Canada and the
United States; but they may just as
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